The military government of Myanmar said Monday that opposition leader and democracy advocate Aung San Suu Kyi would likely not be released from house arrest until a new constitution for the country is...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday urged China to institute a moratorium on capital punishment in preparation for the 2008 Beijing Olympics . HRW commended China for the reported decrease in the number of executions [JURIST...

The registrar of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has expressed concern over the refusal of Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Zdravko Tolimir to accept medical treatment in prison while awaiting...

Spanish anti-terror judge Baltasar Garzon ordered 17 leaders of the Batasuna party to remain in jail Sunday, after Spanish police arrested 23 senior members of the political organization last week....

Martial law will remain in some regions of Thailand indefinitely, General Winai Phattiyakul said Monday, citing unspecified security concerns in border provinces. Winai said that martial law will be lifted in some provinces, but gave no...

Blackwater USA private security guards deliberately shot Iraqi civilians during a September shooting incident , a spokesman for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki said Sunday after the Iraqi government concluded an investigation into...

The Iraqi government said Sunday it would sue the former head of the country's Commission on Public Integrity (CPI) , Judge Radhi al-Radhi, for smuggling official documents, defaming the prime minister and corruption. In testimony Thursday...

Russian police Saturday briefly detained five foreign activists in Nizhny Novgorod on charges of violating the terms of their Russian travel visas. The activists were detained for approximately four and a half hours, and were ordered to pay a...

The Court of Appeal in Sudan has rejected a request for the release of 25 uncharged members of the opposition Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), alleged to have plotted the overthrow of the government. Sudan's Criminal Procedure...

Twenty-three family members and former associates of late Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet were ordered released on bail Saturday by a three-member panel of an appeals court in Chile. The appeals court...